Walsh v. Frankenthaler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Louis Frankenthaler, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in th.e office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 22d day of March, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 26th day of March, 1918, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Shearn, J.:
The judgment under review was entered upon a verdict of $2,500 damages for personal injuries, sustained by plaintiff in falling upon a stairway in defendant’s tenement house as a result of catching her foot in a loose and defective tin nosing on one of the stairs. The existence of the alleged defective and dangerous condition of the stair was sharply contested, but the evidence fairly supports the verdict, both upon the issue of plaintiff’s contributory negligence and upon the issue of defendant’s negligence. The record, however, presents certain occurrences in the course of the…
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